The Shocking Reason I Stopped Sharing My Phone Number—And What Scammers Hope You’ll Do Next!
PERSONAL TIME: I would often receive texts and phone calls during the evenings and on weekends, when I was spending time with family members. I even had some authors contact me on holidays!
TIME ZONE CONFUSION: Some authors would contact me at inconvenient hours (for me) because they were in a different time zone, including in other countries.
A QUICK PHONE CALL WAS NEVER QUICK: A “one-minute phone call” (How many times have I heard that over the years? “It’ll just be a quick minute!”) always stretched far beyond that. You have to be polite (i.e. “How are you doing?”, etc.). It seems everybody wanted to mention the weather, or there was something going on in their personal lives, etc. Answering an author’s question(s) online is FAR faster than any phone conversation.
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